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Stalin: Paradoxes of Power
Thursday 11 December 2014, 6.30 – 8.00pm, Tower 2, 9.04 Speaker: Professor Stephen Kotkin; Chair: Professor Arne Westad
International Conference - Southern European Socialism in the 1980s
Friday 5 & Saturday 6 December 2014, EUI Florence
This conference is being organised in collaboration with European University Institute and Oxford University.
Open Government in the Age of Total War
Tuesday 2 December 2014, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Old Theatre, Old Building Speaker: Professor Matthew Connelly; Chair: Professor Arne Westad
American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during World War II
Thursday 27 November 2014, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Tower 2, Room 9.05 Speaker: Dr Andrew N. Buchanan; Chair: Professor Matthew Jones
From Transformational Leadership to Mafia State? Observations from South Africa's Two Decades of Democracy
Tuesday 25 November 2014, 6:30 - 8:00pm, Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, LG. 03 Speaker: Dr Mzukisi Qobo; Chair: Professor Chris Alden
The Middle Income Trap in Latin America: More Politics than Economics? Thursday, 13th November 2014, 6.00 – 7.30pm, TW2, 9.04 Speaker: Professor Ben Ross Schneider; Chair: Dr Francisco Panizza
Stalin's Team
Tuesday 11 November 2014, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Wolfson Theatre, NAB Speaker: Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick; Chair: Professor Vladislav Zubok
Latin America and the Caribbean: Mexico's Perspective Tuesday 11 November 2014, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Thai Theatre, NAB (LG. 03) Speaker: Vanessa Rubio-Marquez; Chair: Professor Craig Calhoun
The EU, Russia, and Ukraine: Lessons Learned
Thursday 6 November 2014, 6.30-8.00pm, Wolfson Theatre, NAB Speakers: Dr Tomila Lankina, Professor Karen E Smith, Professor Vladislav Zubok, Dr Gwendolyn Sasse; Chair: Professor Michael Cox
God Save the Community: Greece’s Entry into the EEC
Wednesday 5 November 2014, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Tower 2, room 9.04 Speaker: Dr Eirini Karamouzi; Discussant: Dr Piers Ludlow; Chair: Professor Michael Cox
25 Years After the End of the Cold War: Its Legacy in a New World Order
Monday 27 October 2014, 6.30-8.00pm, New Theatre, East Building Speakers: Professor Beatrice Heuser, Dr Andrew Monaghan, Professor Vladislav Zubok; Chair: Professor Michael Cox
A Changing World and China
Wednesday 22 October 2014, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB Speaker: Ambassador Wu Jianmin; Chair: Professor Arne Westad
The Radical Transparency of the American Republic Tuesday 21 October 2014, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Old Theatre, Old Building Speaker: Professor Matthew Connelly; Chair: Professor Arne Westad
Why Emerging Countries Need to Follow Their Own Growth Recipes
Thursday 16 October 2014, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Thai Theatre, NAB Speaker: Dr Jacques Rogozinski; Chair: Professor Stuart Corbridge
The Paradox of China's Peaceful Rise
Tuesday 7 October 2014, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB Speaker: Professor Barry Buzan; Discussant: Professor Arne Westad; Chair: Professor Michael Cox
Totalitarianism: a Hot Word for a Cold War
Wednesday 18 June 2014, 6.30 - 8.00pm, TW2, Room 9.04, LSE Speaker: Professor Juan Fracisco Fuentes; Chair: Dr Svetozar Rajak
Greece and the Crisis in Southern Europe
Thursday 12th June 2014, 6.00 - 8.00pm, Archaeological Society, 22 Panepistimiou Street, Athens - Greece. Speakers: Dr Konstantinos Filis; Professor Gikas Hardouvelis; Dr Angelos Syrigos; Discussant: Alexis Papahelas; Chair: Professor Michael Cox
A New Strategy? Russia as an Unlikely Soft Power
Monday 9 June 2014, 6.30pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building Speakers: Professor Iver Neumann, Dr Arkady Moshes and Dr Thomas Gomart; Chair: Professor Vladislav Zubok
The Polish Roundtable Talks and the End of the Cold War
Wednesday 4 June 2014, 6.30pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building Speakers: Professor Vladislav Zubok, Anne Applebaum, Eugeniusz Smolar and Nigel Thorpe; Chair: Dr Piers Ludlow
40 Years after the collapse of the Greek Junta: Reflections on its Historical Significance Wednesday 28 May 2014, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Wolfson Theatre, NAB Speakers: Professor Richard Clogg, Professor Evanthis Hatzivassiliou; Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
Oman's Foreign Policy under Sultan Qaboos: Independent, But To What Extent? Thursday 22 May 2014, 4:30pm, Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building Speaker: Dr Marc Valerie: Chair: Professor Toby Dodge
The Macroeconomics of the Gulf Thursday 15 May 2014, 4.30pm, G.03, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields Speaker: Raphael Espinoza; Chair: Professor Danny Quah
India, Brazil and South Africa: The Democratic Alternative
Wednesaday 14 May 2014, 6.30pm, B13, Lincoln's Inn Fields Speakers: Anne Bernstein, Dr Eswaran Sridharan and Dr Simon Schwartzman; Chair: Anne Applebaum
The European Left in the 1960s and 1970s: Social Democrats and/vs. Eurocommunists
Tuesday 13 May 2014, 6.30pm, B13, Lincoln's Inn Fields Speaker: Dr Michele Di Donato; Chair: Dr Svetozar Rajak
Feeling Imperial: The Shaping of American Attitudes Towards the Philippines
Thursday 8 May 2014, 1.00pm, B13, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields Speaker: Professor Andrew Rotter; Chair: Professor Mathew Jones
The Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy
Wednesday 7 May 2014, 6.30pm, venue tbc Speakers: H.E. Mauricio López Bonilla, Professor Mark Kleiman, Dr Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch; Chair: Professor Danny Quah
The New Middle East Cold War
Thursday 1 May 2014,6.30pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building Speaker: Professor F. Gregory Gause, III; Chair: Dr Steffen Hertog
What's so Great About Strong Leaders?
Monday 28 April 2014, 6.30pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building Speaker: Professor Archie Brown; Chair: Professor Margot Light
The EU and China
Wednesday 19 March, 6.30pm, B13, Lincoln's Inn Fields Speakers: Feng Yin and Shen Jianping; Chair Dr Svetozar Rajak
Will China Dominate the 21st Century?
Tuesday 18 March 2014, 6.30pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Speakers: Jonathan Fenby, Isabel Hilton, Wu Jian Min; Chair: Professor Arne Westad
Myanmar: Democratisation and Foreign Policy Wednesday 12 March, 1.30pm, B13, Lincoln's Inn Fields Speaker: Dr Jürgen Haacke; Chair: Dr Kirsten Schulze
The Origins of the Final Solution: Eastern Europe and the Holocaust
Tuesday 11 March 2014, 6.30-8.00pm, Old Theatre, Old Building Speaker: Professor Timothy Snyder; Chair: Professor Arne Westad
LSE IDEAS and BBC Radio 4 public discussion: Russia, Ukraine and Us
Friday 7 March 2014, 6.00pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB Speakers: Professor Michael Cox, Professor Anne Applebaum, Ben Judah; Chair: Bridget Kendall
Diversified bur Marginal:The GCC Private Sector as an Economic and Political Force Wednesday 5 March 2014, 4.30pm, NAB 2.04, New Academic Building Speaker: Dr Steffen Hertog; Chair: Professor Toby Dodge
After the Fall: World Order or Disorder
Tuesday 4 March 2014, 6.30pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building Speakers:Prof Jacques Rupnik, Prof Mary Kaldor, Prof Michael Cox; Discussant and Chair: Dr George Lawson
Indonesia: Pluralism in Peril
Wednesday 26 February 2014, 10.00am, KSW.1.04, 20 Kingsway Speakers: Dr Ahmad Suaedy, Rev. Favor Bancin, Father Benny Susyeto, Mahmud Mubarik Ahmad; Chair: Dr Kirsten Schulze
The Dialectics of the Arab Revolutions: 2011-2013 Tuesday 25 February 2014, 6.30pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Speaker: Professor Gilles Kepel; Chair: Professor Toby Dodge
US Power in the Cold War from Kennedy to Reagan
Thursday 20 February 2014, 6.30 - 8.00pm, B13, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields Speakers: Professor Matthew Jones, Dr Barbara Zanchetta; Chair: Dr Piers Ludlow
An American or an Asian Century?
Tuesday 18 February 2014, 6.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB Speaker: Professor John Ikenberry; Discussant: Professor Michael Cox; Chair: Dr Kirsten Schulze
Russia, the Winter Olympics and the World
Thursday 6 February 2014, 6.30pm, CLM 2.02, Clement House Discussants: Dr Samuel Greene, Dr Marie Mendras, Dr Tomila Lankina and Professor Vladislav Zubok
Rising Asia: Lessons Learned from European Integration Wednesday 5 February 2014, 6.30pm, Wolfson Theatre, NAB Speaker: Professor Simon Hix; Chair: Professor Arne Westad
Heads in the Cloud: The Technology Revolution and World Politics
Tuesday 28 January, 6.30pm, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Speaker: Yasmin Green; Chair: Professor Arne Westad
The Origins of Mass Killing:The Bloodlands Hypothesis Tuesday 21 January, 6.30pm, Old Theatre, Old Building Speaker: Professor Timothy Snyder; Chair: Professor Arne Westad
The End of Power
Monday 20 January 2014, 6.30pm, Thai Theatre, New Academic Building Speaker: Dr Moisés Naím; Chair: Dr Nicholas Kitchen
Controlling Mediterranean Boundaries: The Suez Canal as a Global Checkpoint at the Age of Empire
Wednesday 15 January 2013, 6.30pm, B13, 32 LI Speaker: Dr Valeska Huber; Chair: Professor Arne Westad
The Crisis of EU Enlargement: Ottawa Report Launch
Wednesday 8 January 2014, 16:00-17:30, Carleton University, Ottawa Speakers: Luc-André Brunet, David Long, Crina Viju, Piotr Dutkiewicz, Joan DeBardeleben